Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Reclusive Drow
Seeing that Shepard didn't make any other moves, Drow's face changed several times before he finally sighed heavily, put away his scepter, and said indifferently: "I believe that your words are true, but how do you make me believe that a believer of the Lord of the Morning Light will heal Drow?" ”
Shepard smiled: "I know that you do not believe in the vicious and cruel spider queen, but in the good dark girl, since you are not evil yourself, nor have you believed in evil, why can't I treat you?" ”
The two looked at each other for a long time, and the mage finally took a step back and said in a muffled voice, "You come in." ”
Shepard walked into the wooden house vigilantly, but fortunately, until he entered the house, the mage had no intention of sneaking in, only to see that the room was full of herbs and experimental devices, and there were many books on the shelves on the wall, the two wooden houses were connected, and the other wooden house was placed with sofas and benches, and the mage's bed was blocked by a wooden screen.
"Tell me, why do you know I'm cursed?" The mage brought a fruity drink, not knowing whether it was tea or wine.
Shepard took it, took a sip without hesitation, and then said with a smile: "I'm an adventurer, I learned some information during an adventure, someone once found out about the underground race entering the forest, and then I went to check and found that there was a record of dark elves chasing other dark elves, so I thought it was the actions of those spider queen believers chasing and killing rebellions, so I decided to come and have a look." ”
Shepard didn't lie, someone in his previous life found this place all the way after doing a task, he just skipped the previous link again and went directly to the part he needed.
The mage snorted, "Then if I'm like those guys, aren't you miscalculated?" ”
"Then you and the cabin don't exist now." Shepard's smile remained.
Master Drow was silent for a long time before asking, "You said you could help me lift the curse, is it true?" ”
Shepard replied, "Of course, I didn't mean to lie to you, please show me where you were injured." ”
Drow hesitated for a moment, then slowly turned around and lifted up his shirt, only to see that a small part of his back was severely rotten and ulcerated, and in some places even white bones could be seen, which was shocking at the sight.
Shepard also frowned suddenly, only to hear Drow say calmly: "I used magic to cut off the pain in my back, but there is no way to stop the continuous expansion of this thing, I can't go to those priests of the good gods to purify the curse for me, and I can't go back and confess to the spider queen, so it will probably take another year or so, that is, my death." ”
Shepard said in a deep voice: "Dare to resist and flee under the obscenity of the spider queen, Mr. Mage, I admire your courage, I will start to purify the curse on you, it will be very painful, please be patient." ”
Zhuoer was shocked when he heard this, and said in a low voice: "Okay! ”
Shepard lifted the scepter and poured divine power into it, and a cloud of white light suddenly lit up on the scepter, and then shone on Drow's body, and as soon as the purifying power of the priesthood touched his back, it immediately caused a violent resistance from the cursed power.
"Ah!!h The spell that cut off the pain instantly failed, and the pain caused Drow to scream for a moment, and then simply fainted.
Seeing that Drow fainted, Shepard instead relieved his heart and released the divine magic, under the effect of purifying divine power, the flesh and blood entrenched by the evil curse power of Queen Rose seemed to be poured with sulfuric acid, and the extremely disgusting smell became stronger and stronger, but the evil power entrenched in the flesh and blood became weaker and weaker.
The stench became heavier and heavier, but the cursed breath became lighter and lighter, and black blood gradually flowed out of the wound that was originally terrifying but no blood flowed out, and as the evil power and cursed aura declined, the color of the blood became more and more red, until it became a normal bright red.
After the curse was purified, Shepard urged the divine power to heal the wound for Drow, and the fresh flesh sprouts grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, quickly filling the space left by the curse, until the fresh flesh was grown, and there was no wound on Drow's back, and by the way, the cursed breath in his body was also purified, he waved his scepter, and used his divine power to lift Drow up and put it on his own bed, at this time Drow's breathing had become smooth, although the breath was extremely weak, but it was only caused by excessive blood loss and consumption of too much life force, No more life-threatening lives.
*
After a full day and a night, Drow woke up groggily on his bed, shaking his dizzy head for a long time to realize what had happened.
Drow, who got up weakly, saw Shepard sitting on the sofa reading a book and drinking fruit wine without seeing him.
Feeling the relief of not having the curse, Drow mage thanked Shepard weakly but sincerely, "Thank you, human, Duron Nomorik of [Dan Maureth] will always remember and appreciate your kindness. ”
Shepard looked up at Du Lang and said with a smile: "Just call me Shepard, how are you feeling now?" ”
Du Lang's face was happy: "Very good, although the body is very weak, but the power of the curse has completely disappeared in my body, as long as I rest for a month, I think I can return to normal." ”
Shepard said happily, "Very good, but I think you should know that the power of the curse consumes a lot of your life force, and I think it will cause you to lose your life for at least a hundred years, or even more." ”
Du Lang smiled indifferently and said, "That's nothing, without your help, I wouldn't even be able to live for ten years." ”
After speaking, he said without hesitation: "I have nothing to repay you, if you want, I can share all my knowledge with you!" I think you know that the most precious treasure of a mage is his knowledge! ”
Shepard laughed, "Great! Thank you so much! ”
*
In the following month, Shepard continued to learn his knowledge from Du Lang, in addition to [Making Strange Things] and [Copying Magic Scrolls], he also had all the magical knowledge and principles that Du Lang had mastered, especially since he was not one of those 'humanoid memory' mages in the Old World who relied on magic nets to cast spells, nor did he use the shadow web of the spider queen, but the traditional school of casting spells by studying the principles of magic.
Unfortunately, Shepard is not a mage, and even though he has absorbed a lot of magical knowledge and principles, he has not mastered the method of casting spells, but fortunately, he is a true god in his own right, and this knowledge has helped him a lot to improve and create divine magic.
In addition, Du Lang also gave Xue Pad, the secret book of his family's swordsmanship that he took with him when he fled, so that he could master the dark elf swordsmanship that Du Lang's family had mastered, this kind of swordsmanship and sword moves were extremely simple and crisp, and there was an extremely pleasant feeling when casting, and the moves were as elegant as all the martial arts of the elves of the Old World, hiding the killing intent in natural and random movements.
Although Du Lang regretted that Shepard was unable to release spells, Shepard did not feel sorry, the traditional spell casting mode is indeed being eliminated, and these precious magical knowledge and principles will be less and less valued, but it can make his research in magic more perfect, and it is more important for him than the mages who pursue 'understanding the truth of the world'.
Du Lang also understands this, there will be fewer and fewer traditional mages like him, and perhaps in the future, there will only be mages in the entire Old World who rely on the magic net controlled by the goddess of magic, Mithrius, although magic will still flourish, but it will never be the same again.
While Shepard was constantly learning magic from Du Lang and practicing Drow swordsmanship when he had nothing to do, on the other side, these strange seeds also changed in the ruins where he had sprinkled the seeds.
A few teenagers who often pick wild fruits in the forest found a very strange thing today, next to the trail that they have become accustomed to, many ordinary flowers and wild grasses are now much larger than usual, and there is a strange tree, which has grown to the height of two people, and the branches are luxuriant, especially this tree still exudes a strange fragrance, but there are no fruits or small animals here.